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The opera or 'farsa comica' in one act 'La Scala di Seta' (The Silken Ladder) by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was first performed at the 'San Moisé' theatre in Venice on 9 May 1812. It is the story...

The 'suite Arogno' is a musical evocation of the history of this small village on the Alps, at the border with Italy. The first movement describes the travel of architect Adamo da Arogno to Trento whe...

Henk Ummels ha scritto questo arrangiamento facile e allo stesso tempo abile per le bande della classe media di questa composizione classica estremamente popolare di Maurice Ravel. Questo arrangiament...

Gioacchino Rossini. Grande Fanfare, Le Rendez-vous de Chasse Rossini wohnte schon ca. vier Jahre in Frankreich, als er 1828 sein 'Le Rendez-vous de Chasse' schrieb. Es wurde in einer romantischen und...

The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ball...

Gioacchino Rossini is famous as composer of a fabulous series op splendid operas of which the overtures are often most popular and appreciated. The opera 'La Cambiale di Matrimonio' (the change of the...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights with "Scheherazade, Part I". Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's world-famous masterpiece unfolds its full splendor in this magnificent arrangement...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights with "Scheherazade, Part III", published by the renowned Molenaar Edition. In this magnificent arrangement for concert band, Nikolai Rims...

For Bedrich Smetana, the polka was the source of typical Czech music par excellence. We do not only find it in his operas, symphonic works and chamber music, but he also wrote single or separate polka...

Experience the magnificent finale of a timeless masterpiece with "Baba Yaga / La Grande Porte de Kiev" from the world-famous suite "Pictures at an Exhibition", brilliantly arranged for concert band. T...

Experience one of the most monumental masterpieces in music history in all its grandeur: "Pictures At An Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky, masterfully arranged for concert band and published by Molena...

This is the fourth movement from the suite in D minor (HWV 437) for solo harpsichord. This work became widely known from it's prominent use in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon. Brian de Palma...

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - London, 1934) was one of the very first great British composers of classical music to write some valuable original compositions for symphonic band. Holst composed oper...

Sheherazade opus 35 is a symphonic suite composed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov in ST Petersburg in 1888. The suite is based on the famous collection of Arabian fairy tales 'Thousand and one Nights'. Thi...

Grieg composed this funeral march for his friend, Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak who died at the age of 23. Grieg took copies of this piece on all his travels as he wished that it would be played...

La suite Pini di Roma è la seconda opera orchestrale della trilogia romana di Respghi. Questa suite, composta per orchestra sinfonica nel 1923, raffigura vari luoghi di Roma dove crescono i pini. Il f...

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La "Danse des Sauvages" (Danza dei Selvaggi) è un estratto dell'opera di balletto "Les Indes Galantes" (Le Indie Cortesi). Rameau è stato uno dei più importanti compositori francesi (1683 - 1764). Scr...

In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in 1901 and dedicated it to the composer Granville Bantock. Although this second march is less known than the first, it is not less beautif...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...